Game apparatus.



C. WATTS.

GAME APPARATU&

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 25. 1910.

Patented May 14, 1912.

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GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 25, 1910. Serial No. 594,087.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES lrVA'r'rs, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Newark, in the county of .Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improveniente in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of games which are of the nature of base-ball, but adapted to be played indoors upon a table or board.

The objects of the invention are to se cure a game which shall closely simulate base-ball in subject matter and interest; to enable it to be played by any number ot' persons from two up; to provide a simplel inexpensive and easily operated apparatus for playing the game, and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the 'following descriptiont Referring to the accompanying drawings,

in which like numerals of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several figures, Figure 1 is a plan view of the game board folded or closed; Fig. 2 is a plan of said game board opened for playing; Fig. 8 is a section through a portion of the game board, taken on line 3-3 ot Fig. 2; Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are perspective views of the dice employed in playing the game; Figs. 7, 8 and 9 show the surfaces of said dice developed; Fig. 10 is a perspective View of the base runner or piece to be moved around the bases in playing the game; Fig,V 11 illustrates a pennant to be held by the person who won the last game; Fig. 12 shows the cards for assigning the different teams of the National League to persons about to play as that league; Fig. 13 shows the card for the umpire of the game, and Fig. 14 shows the cards for assigning the ditl'erent teams of the American League among persons about to play as that league.

In said drawings, 11 indicates the board upon which my improved game is played, said board preferably comprising a central square portion 12 and corner pieces 13 hinged to the sides of said square central portion 12 and adapted to fold over onto the same, as shown in Fi 1, for compactness and convenience. Preterably the upper sur face of the corner pieces 13 has a covering 14 to represent grass, and the central `portion 12 has a covering 15 to represent the brown or dirt-clored diamond of a base ball field. These coverings are lapped over the board, and the under or reverse side of said pieces is covered with leatherette'or the like, as at 16. The usual whitewashed lines between the bases of a diamond I have shown represented by strips 17 of material 'which serve to hinge the corner pieces 13 of the board to its central portion 12, and the bases 18, 19, 20 and 21 may be designated in any suitable and realistic manner.

Adjacent to each outside straight edge of the corner pieces 13 are designated places Patented May 14, 191 2.

edges of the different pieces of the game for the persons playing, and I have shown 4 this done by printing upon a double series of bats 22 the names of the teams in the National and the American Leagues respectively. This enables the persons who are goin'g to play to imagine themselves the teams ot' either league as they prefer, each person representing one of the teams. Obviously, however, this manner of designation is not essential, since any number of persons from two up can play the ame, and they can gather around the boar in any way so long as they keep their right order of playing. Preferably there are eight persons corresponding to the various teams in a league and they take their places as designated by the bats 22. In order to decide what team ot the eight ditlercnt ones in a league 'each person going into the game is to take any suitable and ordinary method may be employed such as having the names of the teams of each league printed on cards 28 or 29 which are shuffled and drawn by the said persons in turn, after 'they have decided which league they Wish to represent. Furthermore there may be a ninth card 30 to designate the umpire of the game who can also keep the score, all of which cards are shown in Figs. 12 to 14 of the drawings.

Each person represents a base ball team, and when it comes his turn to play lie-employs three dice 23, 24, 25, a portion of the faces of whichY are marked to show that his men, who are supposed to be at the bat, are out, and the remainder of the faces of which are marked to indicate the number of bases along which a base runner 26 may be moved. For instance, I have shown three faces of each die bearing circles 27 which indicate outs, the other faces being marked 1 BH, QBH BBILJ HR c4 SB and BB to indicate one base hit, -two base hit,

three base hit, home run, stolen base and base on balls. respectively. IVhen a person plavin v vwins. 'To add' to the interest the winner is a game throws the dice therefor he moves the base runner according to the showing of faees not marked With circles, and the eircles indicate the number of outs. The dice showing outs are not thrown again that inning, but only the remainingl dice, and

' With these said person continues to throw.

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As soon as said person has three out-s his play is ended and the next person in turn takes the dice, the score of the play just ended being the number of runs which has therefore represents an inning, and the persons play around nine times, when the one who has the highest scorev or number of runs which .is just the number of men on both lsides of a base ball game and furthermore,

three is-the number of outs required to send the team at the bat intothe field. A,

single throw therefore may produce three outs, but if it produces a less number then the number of dice for subsequent throws is reduced, all of which tends to make the game realistic and interesting.

Having thus desbribed the invention, what I claim 1s:

11. The hereindescribed game apparatus, comprising aboard having a baseball dia- Each play of a given person base to base continuously around said diamond, and dice providing eighteen faces nine of which faces are marked with the.

field positions of a baseball team and indicate outs the other nine faces being marked to indicate movements of said base runner around `the diamond from one'hase to a. complete circuit.

3. The hereindescribed game apparatus, comprising a board having a baseball diamond with bases represented thereon, a single base runnel"adapted,to be moved from base to base continuously around said diamond, and three cubical dice the faces of which represent the players'of two opposing teams, nine of said faces being marked with the positions of a baseball team in the eld and the other nine being marked with possible moves of the base runner around the diamond. l

" CHARLES \VATTS.

l/Vitnesses:

RUSSELL M. EvEm-l'r'r, FRANCES E. BLonon'r'r. i 

